Bodies, Design & Politics

New war technologies implies some new way of resisting it. US Department of Defense revealed this week that the video transmission of the attack drones operating in Iraq have been hacked by Iraqi insurgents who were thus able to see what the pilot (comfortably sat somewhere 20000 km away) was seeing.
Those news are encouraging by picturing possible faults in this des-humanized weapon which could quite likely become an internal weapon for a “state of exception”. Imagine a western country with a lot of riots like Greece or France and a state of emergency declared authorizing drones to operate in the risky zones. If it sounds too much sci-fi for you, you may want to read this former post about a drone in Paris suburbs’ sky in 2006…

THE FUNAMBULIST

The Funambulist is a research platform written and edited by Léopold Lambert.

Its name is inspired by a wondering/wandering on the line as architects' medium. A line on the white page splits in reality two milieus from one another and organizes politically the bodies in space. The act of walking on the line (funambulist means tight-rope walker) is an act of subversion of the traditional role of the line/wall.